02.22.13
Miami-based bioceutical and nutritional supplement manufacturer Scimera BioScience has launched a novel probiotic formulation, Asprega ProPac, to address the gastrointestinal side effects of antibiotic therapy including antibiotic-associated diarrhea (AAD). Unique to ProPac, Scimera packages its probiotic in a convenient, 10-day course to be taken along with a typical 10-day course of antibiotics. At 20 billion CFUs, or “colony forming units,” Asprega ProPac has more than double the potency of most probiotics. In addition, its special delayed-release capsule delivers maximum effectiveness deep in the digestive tract.
Doctors and physician extenders in the U.S. prescribe more than 133 million courses of antibiotics each year, excluding hospital-based prescriptions. And among the patients who take these antibiotics, approximately 30%, or nearly 40 million, suffer from gastrointestinal distress and AAD. ProPac, which uses the same complex blend of 11 probiotic strains and saccharomyces boulardii yeast found in Scimera's Asprega product, addresses the "good bacteria" sometimes disturbed during antibiotic therapy.
Doctors and physician extenders in the U.S. prescribe more than 133 million courses of antibiotics each year, excluding hospital-based prescriptions. And among the patients who take these antibiotics, approximately 30%, or nearly 40 million, suffer from gastrointestinal distress and AAD. ProPac, which uses the same complex blend of 11 probiotic strains and saccharomyces boulardii yeast found in Scimera's Asprega product, addresses the "good bacteria" sometimes disturbed during antibiotic therapy.